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Kitten
11-02-2012, 22:26
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Amelie

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades...

Amelie on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/)
Ratings: 8.5/10

Dymetrie
04-03-2012, 21:05
Absolutely superb film which we thoroughly enjoyed on this rainy Sunday afternoon :)

The expression on her face in the 'sex' scene always cracks me up :D

Garp
16-03-2012, 08:25
Whoops, several days behind on this :(

Kari's review, in three words: What the heck?

My Review..

What a charming little film :) A bit absurdist for my general taste, but very gallic and the director has a delightful touch at bringing the various crazy threads together aided by the suitably impish and delightful Audrey Tautou. Both Kari and I could be found shouting at the TV "Just ASK HIM OUT!"

Kitten
16-03-2012, 10:58
I think it might be too subtle for American tastes ;)

Jonny69
16-03-2012, 14:19
I love the French in this film.

Garp
16-03-2012, 15:52
I think it might be too subtle for American tastes ;)

I think part of it may well be down to European/French humour.. we are rather fond of the absurdist stuff ;D